Polio Virus Detected in Mirpur AJK Sewrage System – But It Stands No Panic In This Lake District: DHO Dr Fida Hussain:

English , Kashmir - آزاد جموں کشمیر , Snippets , / Sunday, July 13th, 2025

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Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR ( AJK): July 13 : Mirpur AJK District Health Authorities have advised the parents to get completed the routine immunisation course including the polio vaccination course of their under-5 children through the routine stipulated polio vaccinations drive.

“Yes, the polio virus was detected in Mirpur AJK through sewerage system inspection, since the virus geneticaly linked to the virus existing in Lahore, in the wake of the recent environmental inspection primarily to detect the viral disease”, said Dr. Fida Hussain, District Health Officer Mirpur, Azad Jammu Kashmir while talking to this Correspondent here on Sunday.

The DHO continued that the people should not be scared of the detection of the polio virus nor should be panicked as the polio virus was reportedly detected at about two hundred sites in various parts of the country in the wake of the routine examination and inspection of the sewerage system on environmental grounds, he observed.

Dr. Fida Hussain emphasised that parents should strictly focus to get the polio vaccination in every compaign of their children under 5 years of age completed through the polio eradication drives conducted in the country including Azad Jammu Kashmir under the World Health Organization calendar.

To a question, the DHO said that the AJK State Health Department was keeping a close watch monitoring the situation to instantly combating the detection of the polio virus in any part of this lake side district.